Word: stomachly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the Generalissimo of China thus busy with matters more practical than fighting Japan, the Nanking Government has had to have a Premier whom Japanese would consider pro-Japanese, this remarkable Chinese being Mr. Wang Ching- wei. When he himself could no longer stomach his sickening role and resigned "because of my poor health, which is very real" (TIME, Aug. 26), the Japanese Government applied pressure which forced Generalissimo Chiang to oblige Mr. Wang to get well overnight and carry on as Premier. "Japan Is Fully Prepared." Premier Wang and his Cabinet play their roles as a coop full...
...Australians cockily make sea-swimming their favorite sport. Since a shark digests an Australian in a few days, it was major Commonwealth news when a huge tiger shark, thrashing around under the eyes of fascinated bathers in an aquarium near Coogee Beach, suddenly spewed up the contents of its stomach including an undigested human arm tattooed with two boxers wearing red shorts...
...tattooed arm was swallowed by a baby shark which failed to digest it before the baby shark was in turn gulped down by an oversize tiger shark. By final coincidence the tiger shark happened to be caught and so roughly handled on its way to the aquarium that its stomach turned before it had quite digested the baby shark, thus spewing up Smith's tattooed arm in prime condition...
...realize, of course, my dear MacBride, that you stand against the opinion of practically the whole biological world." It was not that Dr. MacBride could not stomach the fundamental fact of organic evolution. Probably no sane biologist, and certainly none of Dr. MacBride's calibre, remains unconvinced that all complex forms of life have arisen from simpler organisms. It was the mode of evolution that Dr. MacBride disputed. He is an ardent Lamarckist, believing that certain acquired characteristics can be inherited. For that reason he sticks out like a heterodox thumb in Britain as Duke University's venerable...
Despite the stiff back he will have received from sitting wedged among his contemporaries on the floor, despite the weight of chicken a la king reposing in his stomach, the homeward bound Freshman will have a distinct feeling of stimulation and of pleasurable anticipation for the future...